OriginsoftheColdWar

As World War II transformed both the United States and the USSR, turning the nations into formidable world powers, competition between the two increased.

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the ...

Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies.

In June 1950, the first military action of the Cold War began when the Soviet-backed North Korean People's Army invaded its pro-Western neighbor to the south.

The Cold War was the global, ideological rivalry between the Soviet Union-led Eastern bloc and American-dominated “Free World.” It emerged in the aftermath ...

The Cold War developed as differences about the shape of the postwar world created suspicion and distrust between the United States and the Soviet Union. The ...